augury
augury 英 [ˈɔ:gjʊri] 美 [ˈɔɡjəri]
n. 占卜；预言；预兆
名词复数:auguries
- Is your team losing 15-0? Has your girlfriend just slapped your face? Dude, these are auguries — signs of how things are going to work out in the future. And these two examples don't look good.
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- n. 占卜；预言；预兆
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1. augury is the important part of Chinese traditional culture.
占卜是中国传统文化中的一个重要组成部分。
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2. The maritime passage was a good augury for the aerial passage .
顺利的航海仿佛也是航空的好预兆。
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3. The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
唯一最好的预言就是为国家而战。
- augury (n.) late 14c., "divination from the flight of birds," from Old French augure, augurie "divination, soothsaying, sorcery, enchantment," or directly from Latin augurium "divination, the observation and interpretation of omens" (see augur (n.)). Sense of "omen, portent, indication, that which forebodes" is from 1610s. Often in plural, auguries.
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